During the recent decades most of the countries all over the world changed their English teaching methods from the old language teaching approaches which was mainly focused on the teachers’ performances to learner centered approaches. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach mainly focuses on the students interactions in the classrooms and attracted many scholars’ ideas in the field of language teaching and learning. But CLT mainly originated from the countries with English native teachers and students. In many EFL/ESL countries still many teachers and students have several problems in order to apply CLT in their educational systems. Malaysian ministry of education assigned all of the secondary schools in order to apply CLT in the English classes. During the current research, researchers surfed on net and investigated in several valid data bases but they couldn’t find any studies about students’ and teachers’ perceptions regarding the CLT principles in the context of Malaysia. As it seems very important to know their perceptions and challenges regarding CLT and what they really do in the schools researchers did a qualitative survey investigation in order to find out teachers’ and students’ perceptions and challenges for implementing CLT in the secondary schools, as the main role makers in the English classes.In this study researchers used stratified sampling method and they had some criteria in mind to choose their samples like school type and school setting.To this aim, 30 students as well as 30 teachers participated in the semi-structured interviews Participants answered to the three phase semi-structured interviews. Three phase interview has been used in order to find out participants’ ideas. Results of the study reflected students’ and teachers’ perceptions & challenges regarding CLT principles in Malaysia. Although most of the students and teachers were agreed with CLT principles but they had some problems regarding the CLT implementation in Malaysian context like lack of school facilities, quality of textbooks, and some problems regarding the teaching of some skill and sub skills. At the end of
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